Travel Blogs from Kampong Cham, Cambodia

... said about many countries in the world that the people are one of the highlights of any visit but I'm going to say it again about Cambodia, the people are so nice. Almost everyone you meet has a smile on their face. In Kompong Cham we again hired bikes to ...

The bus ride ($5) from Kratie was a short one, 3-4 hrs approx. There is not so much to do in KampongCham but while away a few hours sipping bars at one of the riverside cafe / bars looking out over the Mekong. The river seems to flow in ...

We took what was supposed to be a 3 hour bus ride to KampongCham on Wednesday. After about an hour i heard what i thought was the bus hitting some low branches about half an hour later we got pulled by the police. it turns out the low branches were ...

... of me. Known in Khmer as "a-ping's", they are a breed of palm-sized tarantulas... and they are renowned throughout Cambodia, as being somewhat of a delicacy in this impoverished farming region.
Apparently, when Pol Pot threw everyone out of the ...

... and Sambot in Sen Monorom was really great. One learns a lot more about a country by talking to the locals. Now Kompong Cham, I must admit, is a city I new nothing about, and very few travellers seemed to know anything about. It was the site of the ...

... that you get nothing more than a over priced tourist town which is a shame really as there is much more to Cambodia and the people than that.
KampongCham however is where I have had the most fun. RIchard and Mel have been working there for about 7 ...

... as a bird, just like he was in his youth. When that time comes, he is planning to spend a good part of each year in Cambodia teaching English and Nuclear Fusion for free. He has traveled to some of the most daring spots in the world, including quite a few ...

Making my way south I skipped Kratie and a visit to the Irrawaddy dolphins, going straight to KampongCham instead. Because there is little foreign investment and no massive tourism this city is quite poor, yet not lacking in French architecture from the ...

... . Thank god... All of the buses that I saw at the station were Korean tour buses that were scrapped to the Kingdom of Cambodia.
During the entire journey the scenery was the same as what i had seen on the way to Beng Melea. Extreme, Sub-Saharan ...

... up and dropped out to the bus stop, where we soon realised that we had been sold two tickets to a different place entirely - KampongCham. After a small bit of swearing, the guys in the bus station confirmed that there wasn't a bus to where we ...

Some days ago we went to visit the Male and Female Mountains ( Phnom Pros and Phnom Srei) a few km west from KG Cham. The shorter of the two mountains is Phnom Pros and the taller is Phnom Srei. To make the story short, according to the legend a ...

... edge where I made my purchase just before jumping board!
After lunch there was a talk on the history of Cambodia with some useful general information on day to day things like marriage and living conditions.
During the afternoon the ...

... Cambodian life outside the main cities. The people were friendly (and less obsessed with selling you stuff) and Amy was happy because KampongCham is the home of many monkeys (one which we saw was tirelessly teasing some stupid dogs from up a tree) and ...

... hours practicing Khmer with them and helping them with English. Making friends and building relationships with colleagues is particularly important in Cambodia, and I think this is going well so far. I have met 4 members of my team (there are 3 others): ...

Kompong Cham
As we've said before we are spending most of the first 6 weeks in Cambodia in Kompong Cham, learning the Khmer language. I thought it might be interesting to say a little about the town and show a few photographs.
Firstly, our ...

... in the home stay lobby. Banana pancakes and fresh eggs. Excited to move on to new cities with new adventures. Public bus to kampongCham -5hrs away. Had to load bags through the back window. It was fun to sit at a higher vantage point and observe the ...

... to break my trip up into Laos into parts and stop off when I get to a major town of some sort, first on the list is KampongCham. Defiantly not much going on in this place, the river front has food and beer stalls but most were cleared out due to the ...

Here we are in Cambodia! Making our way towards Siem Reap (Temples of Angkor). We stopped in a couple of places and taking it easy while our Simon is recovering from his motorbike accident. He is doing ok, just a few stiches and a big bump on the head. ...

... in the fields for a while. We had another delicious lunch and spent an hour or two dosing in the hammocks before heading back to KampongCham. I took a few photos with Ma, Pa, and Julie before three of us (Pa, Julie and I) took to the dirt/mud ...

... cultural first!
So today another early start and another bus journey (this time only 5 hours) finds me in the provincial city of KampongCham which sits on the Mekong river. After dumping our bags at the hotel we all hired bikes and set off for what ...

... see, as my headlight is useless anyway, but so others could see me. The rain held off, and I got into KampongCham and checked into my hotel at exactly 7pm, tired and dirty as usual, sometimes I wonder about the looks hotel staff give ...

... cannot or will not be able to look after them. It was a surreal site watching as these happy, laughing (as all in Cambodia are) children played tag. The surreal being that the children with 2 legs were hopping so as not to disadvantage those children who ...

On the 3rd February we arrived on a farm called Rana Homstay. We met Don and Kheang and they had 2 children called Ra and Na. We were just settling in with a drink when the dogs started to bark and there was a giant snake coming towards us with 2 ...

... I could to say in Khmer that he needed to go to Siem Reap and we needed a moto driver to take him at least to KampongCham, a large provincial town 1 ½ hours North, to catch a bus the rest of the way. It was intimidating trying to negotiate with so many ...

Despite my hotel trying to con me that the travel agency I'd booked my bus ticket with were unreliable and the ticket didn't say anything about a drop off at the bus station and I should definitely get one of the bikes from outside the hotel (motorbike, ...

... ;To date, Dasha's family received letters and information about the children's progress, each one living in various countries - Cambodia, Phillippines and Colombia. As a result of the sponsorship, the children's (and families) are provided long term ...